MUMBAI: In contrast to his tribesmen, former India wicketkeeper Syed Saba Karim has quietly slipped into the position of GM (cricket operations), BCCI. In an interview with TOI, Karim explains the place he wish to see Indian cricket in future.

You had a coaches and captains conclave on Monday. For the primary time, the chairman of the choice committee, MSK Prasad, too was current…

His focus wasn’t on the Indian workforce’s necessities. It was extra about methods to protect our pacers. Within the final couple of years or so, the workforce administration has performed nicely to protect four-five of our prime pacers. That’s why we haven’t had too many accidents. That’s what he (Prasad) is asking from coaches and captains on the state stage. We’ve seen previously that younger speedsters generally clock about 140-150. Nonetheless, as soon as they play your complete season, there’s a risk of a burnout. So, as a way to keep away from that, it’s essential to watch their workload.

There’s discuss state associations having contracts with the gamers in future…

The time has come for the state associations to affix palms with the BCCI in having a central contract system for each female and male cricketers.

There have been discussions a couple of day-night Take a look at when the West Indies tour right here in October. Is that within the pipeline?

We’re exploring the chance. There’s a sturdy motive why we must always have day/evening Assessments. In case you take a look at it from a world perspective, then there are different nations who’ve gone forward and performed day/evening Assessments with some glorious outcomes. They drew a big attendance. The ICC I consider has give you an announcement that each one of us want to sit down collectively to work out a system to avoid wasting Take a look at cricket. One of many ideas was to have day-night Tests.

From subsequent season, we’ll have the Ranji knockouts on a house and away system. This format was a lot appreciated on the conclave by each the captains and coaches. This was due to the superb job performed by the (impartial) curators throughout venues. We wish put off the idea of impartial venues. We wish extra folks to come back and watch home cricket. There’s a strategic transfer, one can say, to get the state associations on board, in order that they’re able to publicize home occasions and get increasingly folks on the bottom.

We plan to have India A ‘shadowing’ the Indian workforce. We wish India A to journey to the identical nation the place the Indian workforce is meant to tour later, in order that a few of our gamers can get acclimatized to the circumstances.

Will the BCCI proceed to implement Rahul Dravid’s coverage of permitting an U-19 participant to play only one World Cup in that age group?

Everybody within the ICC has appreciated us on the difficulty that India is the one nation on the earth that enables gamers to play only one World Cup. It helps increasingly gamers to come back by. That’s the reason you see such a wholesome state of junior cricket in India.

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